Just went and watched this film tonight. I'm disappointed in some of you for treating this film as if it were a total butchery. I was expecting something on par with Double Dragon or Mortal Kombat: Annihilation in terms of a terrible adaption and quite frankly I was pretty surprised it worked out so well.

It was basically the Reader's Digest version of Season 1 (Book 1: Water) but it highlighted the main point of that story and for the most part stayed pretty accurate which is more than I can say for most adaptions. It sacrifices two of the characters growth but seeing as how one basically played nurse maid to the Avatar and the other was mostly comic relief I don't feel their characters being stunted was a disservice.

I feel the only major problem with the film is that it does try to fit 26 episodes into a two hour film and it frankly can't be done well no matter what, but putting that into account its not so bad, though I can see why people not familiar with the source material would be pissed. Beyond that is just weird actor choices and issues with keeping consistent ethnicity. Sokka and Katara being the only two Caucasian Americans in a group that is mostly Northern American Tribes looks really out of place and the Fire Nation going from being heavily based on Chinese culture and ethnicity suddenly becoming predominately Indian was a bit weird but this is Hollywood and their are always bound to be changes. I'm just grateful the story is mostly kept intact.